We already murder some babies. Why not murder all babies?

How about “because if bad stuff is bad, more bad stuff is worse”?

Kinda, but also not really. Any major tech player that has billions to lose will make a show of respecting robots.txt when presenting that information to third parties, lest they be exposed by basic journalism.

However, they also have separate networks in R&D that sweep the net all the time and do not care about such restrictions. It’s theatre.

And they’re still happy to punish people that have the gall to publicly decline their crawlers. Basically they can eat their cake and have it too.

I just saw KDE Bigscreen got reboot. While it’s not exactly the same (its for TVs, like Android TV and Steam Big Picture mode), it’s nice to see major desktop environments(DE) adopt new UI features for small and large devices. This compliments work done by groups like PinePhone, who laid the groundwork for Linux phones.

Because the tech industry hasn’t had a real hit of it’s favorite poison “private equity” in too long.

The industry has played the same playbook since at least 2006. Likely before, but that’s when I personally stated seeing it. My take is that they got addicted to the dotcom bubble and decided they can and should recreate the magic evey 3-5 years or so.

This time it’s AI, last it was crypto, and we’ve had web 2.0, 3.0, and a few others I’m likely missing.

But yeah, it’s sold like a panacea every time, when really it’s revolutionary for like a handful of tasks.

Yes! We’ve gotten them up to 94℅ wrong at the behest of insurance agencies.

That … tracks

Unironically Orwellian

It used to function as a fallback SMS/MMS messenger (like how iMessage does) but when Google started moving to convert Android from SMS/MMS to RCS Signal made the hard decision to cut the fallback functionality rather than follow Google’s new framework.

I personally hope once the dust settles Signal designs a RCS engine and restores the fallback functionality.

My mom still maintains her Angelfire site. MySpace still exists. There are historical cities that are ghost towns of what they once were - yet the cities exist. Once you reach a particular space of cultural ubiquity, it gets hard to disappear.

It’s a chicken and egg issue. Nobody will create content on a platform with inferior usability.

Hard to capture that lightning

Personally I think self-hosting (Docker containers and stuff) would be a good solution, but for the Fediverse that would mean making a ‘family size’ edition of the server software.

I imagine if it became a common hobby and every geek interested supported ~4-25 friends, it might work.

My understanding is that ménage à trois says the three are ‘living together’ with the sex being implied via innuendo, whereas plan à trois is more directly about the sex act itself.

Have you met the French? There’s a bunch of English sex words brought in from French! Most notably is ménage à trois, for a threesome. The smoking a cigarette after sex cliché is pretty French too.

Strictly speaking, if someone asked me to do something and I agree, that makes me responsible. So because they forgot they’re tectonically responsible - but that doesn’t mean the roommate is right. They’re still a stuck-up asshole.

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I mean there are a few good actuate positive predictions. The family of laws that collectively are called Moore’s law is decent offhand example.

Look, I respect where you’re coming from. May I presume your line of reasoning is in the vein of “elon musk sucks and thus anyone who buys their stuff is a Nazi and should die” - but that is far, far too loose of a chain of logic to justify sending a man to death alone. Perhaps if you said that they should be held accountable with the death penalty on the table? But c’mon - are you really the callous monster your comment paints you as?

At least this one follows the advice of his PR team. 🙄 but yeah.

Worse - easy way to set the settings then gaslight the user to say they asked for it that way.

How much you wanna bet that it makes those changes in a way that is generally indistinguishable from as if it was done by the user’s own credentials? (Except save perhaps in recall’s own logs)